By Nathan Bender
Title: MS 283 - J.E. Tuell Photograph Albums
Creator: Tuell, J.E.
Extent: 1.0 Boxes
Date Acquired: 01/01/1994
Mrs. Julia Ethel Tuell (1886-1960) lived on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana from 1906 to 1912, Stroud, Oklahoma with the Sac and Fox Indians in 1913, and on the Sioux Indian Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota from 1913-1929. A photographer, her images were used by George Bird Grinnell to illustrate his books “The Cheyenne Indians” v. I & II, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923. Included in this collection are three photo albums dated from 1908-1918. The first two albums described are of Northern Cheyenne reservation life, and third begins on the Northern Cheyenne but ends on the Rosebud.
3¼x4 ¼ leather bound and tied album labeled “Brownie” containing 21 2x3 black & white photos.
5½ x7 album bound in black paper and tied with red cord, descriptive text for 11 4x5 hand colored photographs, Album cover label: Photographs “Among the Cheyennes”.
7½ x10 album of 169 black & white photographs & 2 magazine clippings.
Descriptive text for most of the photographs are under the photo in white pen or written on the back of the photo. Some photos in this collection can also be found in her biography “Women and Warriors of the Plains: The Pioneer Photography of Julia E. Tuell” by Dan Aadland, MacMillan, NY: 1996. The final photographs in album, (after c. #106?) are dated to when Mrs. Tuell would have been living on the Rosebud Reservation.
Accruals: Photograph of two wood caskets sitting on rocks beneath pine trees, Where Sleep the Indian Dead, March 17 2015.
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Acquisition Source: Donald Brinkman
Acquisition Method: Gift